Pretty darn close, for sure.
Thanks to a reader in Saudi Arabia for reminding me of the following incident - arguably one of the better examples of information operations Interent Haganah-style.
Keep in mind that the suicide bomber who struck the CIA base in Afghanistan late last year, Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani, was formerly an administrator of the al-Hesbah forum. It is likely that he was identified and captured by the Jordanians as a result of that activity.
The al-Hesbah forum, as far back as 2003-2004, was one of the most important, and certainly the most exclusive of jihadi sites. It survived the Montada al-Ansar forum (of Irhabi007 fame) and continued to operate until late fall/early winter of 2008. Actual cause of death has not been revealed, but likely was related to a kind of survivor guilt - all the other "top tier" jihadi sites having been scuttled earlier in the Fall of '08.
The administrators of the al-Hesbah forum were accused of colluding with the Enemies of Islam™ by the operators of the rival Tajdeed forum - the latter having suffered a near-terminal loss of members following an extended period of down-time as a consequence of the post 7/7 bombing backlash in the UK (Tajdeed was/is operated by individuals living in the UK). In particular the al-Hesbah admins were accused of assisting in the capture of Irhabi007 - a charge later proven to be without merit.
Enter Internet Haganah - stage right.
On 02 March 2006 I posted a report about the geographic distribution of the readership of the al-Hesbah forum - the administrators of that forum had, in fact, provided me with critical assistance in collecting the data (not that they were aware of it at the time).
Over at the Tajdeed forum, the brothers seized upon this as proof that al-Hesbah was in league with Satan:
A month later I posted the demographic data for the Tajdeed forum:
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